Founding Product Manager (German-speaking)
Job description
Founding Product Manager at BoWatt, a startup building agentic requirements and systems engineering software for manufacturing. The role owns product discovery, roadmap prioritisation, and delivery from discovery through launch and iteration.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- On-site · Munich, Germany
- Languages
- German – fluent, English
What you'll do
- Lead product discovery - translate complex workflows and customer needs into clear product requirements and success criteria
- Develop a deep understanding of how manufacturing and systems-engineering teams work
- Identify and define the highest-value customer problems for BoWatt to solve
- Help own and prioritise the product roadmap
- Balance strategic opportunities, recurring customer needs, commercial importance, and engineering effort
- Drive product initiatives from initial discovery through scoping, development, launch, and iteration
- Give engineers the context and clarity needed to make strong implementation decisions
- Prototype and test potential solutions with customers before and during development
- Work with Customer Success to turn individual customer feedback into scalable product improvements
- Use qualitative feedback and product data to understand adoption and evaluate whether features are working
- Triage product issues and bugs, make clear prioritisation decisions, and coordinate with Engineering
- Improve BoWatt's processes for discovery, prioritisation, product delivery, launches, and feedback
- Develop deep expertise in BoWatt's product, customers, and target industries
What we're looking for
- At least two years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Product Operations, or a comparable product-building role
- Experience shipping B2B software in close collaboration with engineers
- Experience conducting product discovery and translating customer problems into clear requirements
- Strong prioritisation, project management, and stakeholder-management skills
- The ability to understand technical products and communicate with engineers, technical users, and business stakeholders
- Fluent German required; English is our internal working language
- Four days per week in our Munich office at Balanstraße
Nice to have
- Experience with enterprise software, AI products, manufacturing, engineering, systems engineering, or early-stage startups is a bonus
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Participation in BoWatt's Founders Pool: 5–10% virtual equity package
- Significant ownership over an important part of BoWatt's product
- The opportunity to help build BoWatt's product function and ways of working
- 25 vacation days per year, plus public holidays
- Company retreats
- WellPass membership
How to get hired
- 120-minute screening call
- 290-minute live product case (CEO and team member)
- 360-minute culture interview (CEO)
- 4Reference checks & Offer
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About BoWatt
Building agentic requirements and systems engineering software for manufacturing
BoWatt is building agentic requirements and systems engineering software for manufacturing. We bootstrapped BoWatt to €500k+ ARR before raising our first round. BoWatt is backed by tier-1 investors, including Atlantic Foodlabs, Buildery (CDTM affiliates), and Prequel Ventures, along with angels from Cohere and Luminovo. You'll join a small team of startup builders focused on speed, ownership, and execution. Over half the team are former founders, with backgrounds across DeepTech AI, gaming, and other startups.
Mission
We believe AI will reach PhD-level engineering capability within the next 10 years. This will unlock massive value across complex manufacturing industries.
Key facts
- Agentic requirements and systems engineering software for manufacturing
- Bootstrapped to €500k+ ARR before raising its first round
- Backed by tier-1 investors, including Atlantic Foodlabs, Buildery (CDTM affiliates), and Prequel Ventures, along with angels from Cohere and Luminovo
- Over half the team are former founders
- Team members have studied and worked at institutions and companies including Stanford, TUM, Google, EA, and YC-backed AI startups
Partners & customers
What they value
- Speed
- Ownership
- Execution